Chichewa

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Proper noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.4 See also

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Alternative spellings

• Chicheŵa

[edit] Etymology

chi- (“‘language’”) + Cheŵa

[edit] Proper noun

Singular Chichewa

Plural -

Chichewa

1. The Bantu language of the Cheŵa tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi’s national tongues promoted as the country’s lingua franca.

[edit] Synonyms

• Nyanja

[edit] See also

• Category:Chichewa language for words in Chichewa
• ISO 639-1 code ny, ISO 639-3 code nya (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Chichewa, nya